The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-28
The Great Railway Bear
gets Squeezed by a Fe-
male Operator.
The Hug Makes huntington.
Ribs trnck and Way Welt
Ills Holdings.
The Houston and ICNuN Central
Property Belongs To Nr>.
iIcttic Green.
Inc uou.rou .nd rc,n, central.

thc Houston aud rCNn> Central.
NEW NoRii. May 2G--lt is stated
that hoIdcre OF % lgrge amount of
Houston and Texas Contra general
mortgage bonds refused to accept the
proposition of c. H. huntington t.
scale down the interest ON bonds and
will proceed with foreclosure pro-
ceVdm.- 1A their own account Tho
members of the general mortgage
bOudhOidcrs committee. however.
Calm thN all opposition Is In Mr-.
llc.i' Greer, wh) hold about : .OOO.-
600 of the b0udr Tue company
claims that u mnlOuty 81 all classes of
houdhOldor- have already agreed 10
the proposition. Mrs Hottie Green
who is the richest womnuIn America;
whose great wealth aid financial
ability has made her power in Wall
-trCct, cHusci "a new tcusalion b.
refusing TO become paTty
to the agreement entered into
between the bondhoiicrs of the llous-
ton and Texas Central railroad. Mrs.
Green, 10y her action. has actually
pittcd her wealth and cunning against
the wealth aud cunning OF &. l.. Hunt
ingtOn and ms associates, Mr.. Green
evidently means busiucs- aud is prob
ably bringing suit tn maiutnin what
she considers h'r right ia the rc-or-
gnniHtiOu OF IA" Ilcu-tOn nnd Texas
Central railway. g. T. Huntington
aud his nsoociniC, own etock they
I picked M - u Ncrt low price, should
/ he near ten homes OF The rOad arc
widely held Mrs. Green owning
about Sl,OOO,OUO genera mort gage
bonds besides large amount Of Il. st
aud second mortgage bonds. u de
tHultcd on interest two or three years
ago and sOmrtlmc after refusing to
negotiate, bOndholdCrs held All indig-
nation meeting i'm the office Of Foster
Higgins Nud sumcthiuH wn- sand about
Mr. huntington, winch was NOT very
p 'Heaut lulimatcd that huntington
engaged in scheme 10 wreck The
property IN order To- get II more sO-
rurcly in his gra-p. Finally, however,
the bond holders appointed COM
mittcc which arrived at au uud r.
.uudiug with Huntington, and plan
Of reorganization was drnWn up. Tho
bond hol,lGr'- committee all along
ccuutol on the ipport Of Mrs (irccn.
With lhht oi lcct in view Mr. Qpinlan
WHs put oAa committee and repeated
ouIcIcnccs have been hold with the
Indy ~ the Chcu.ca bunk. Mrs.
Grccn who attends to all her bu moss
personally enough nor husband, who
WH-Once president OF the Louisville
and Nashville, Is living and Is
u ,hrcWd bu-inee Iran, stated
positively thH Mrs. u,rccn prom
iscd to pl see her bond with
tho cOmuiuc In assent to the re-
organization plan a. soon ~ tho hold.
crs OF Tl,2uOOOO Of them had done 80;
all was creme aud peaceful until Mon
day when the committee discovered
TINT Mrs. Green had changed her
mind. Mcmber- Of the committee,
however, u,c stronger term than
"changcd her mind They say she
deliberately broke hcr promise aud
Whlc di-iuuluc TO make 70 public at
tack upon woman, did not disguise
their disgust ut her conduc. lIor
action, II was dec Arcd. wA- iuicicnsi-
bic aud Mrs. Grccu'r action two years
AgO IN WlthdrhWlnE her hAIi million
dollars dolo .iel with John j. Cisco,
which many believe Wa the immcdi-
atc cause OF the failure Of that old es-
tabhshcd house, was recalled.
Mrs Green, il i. Understood, Dollcvos
tha' by holding ont now that
all other bondholdcr- have assontcd
she can force Mr Huntington to make
II private settlement with her on bet
ter terms han other bOndhOldcrs will
get Mrs. Green is the daughter OF n
New Bedford Whalor, who left her a
comfortable fortune fourteen years
ago, which she has increased by her
own cXcrtions until sho II now be-
lievcd to be the richest woman in
America Her last great feast in the
financial world was when she sudden
ly sold out all her interest in the
Georgia Central road during that
tight for control OF the company. she
hqd for years supported The admins
tration Of tho party but deserted them
and sold all her holdings and left her
old friends to death,